If You Can Win It In One Period You Can Lose It, Too: Lightning 5, Hawks 4

After mounting massive comebacks in several games, recently, reserving most of their effort for the third period, The Hawks got a taste of their own medicine as Tampa Bay struck for three goals in the second period.  Even though The Hawks had their teeth kicked in possession-wise, without that ain't-give-a-damn second frame they probably cruise to an easy win.  I don't have a lot to say about this, so here we go.
Duncan Keith had a wonderful game, I thought, at least until the last minute or two of the third period, and it's a shame that he was on the ice for the game winner.
Speaking of the game winner, that was a cocktail of circumstances that just left a bad taste in The Hawks' collective mouths.  The breakout was good, with Kane fighting through the forecheck to hit Keith up-ice.  When Panarin accepted Keith's pass at the Tampa blue line he was a little close to Hedman, but it certainly wasn't a situation that he wouldn't normally stickhandle his way out of. Alas, Hedman executed a perfect poke check and the puck was heading downrange before anyone could react.  Of course, it would happen that it was van Riemsdyk that had just hopped over the boards, and we all know he couldn't catch a cold in a hospital ward room.
And what was TVR even doing on the ice in overtime, anyway?  The NBCSN colour man, I have no idea who it was, took a moment to make up a bunch of stuff on the spot about TVR, and how he's learned and improved so much this season.  Listen, NBC, spare us the "if it sounds good, say it" stuff. TVR hasn't learned a damn thing and, more importantly, neither have The Hawks' coaches where 57-Varieties-of-Bad is concerned.  His 30-odd seconds of stumbling around during the sequence in which Darling was forced to make several acrobatic saves should be enough evidence to have TVR dispatched...somewhere else, but yet...
The only Hawks line to crack 50% Corsi was the Hayden-Des-Tootoo trio, playing about half their shifts against the Tampa top-six, and really only undone on one poor shift that led to Drouin's first goal.

Speaking of first goals, Tomas Jurco finally potted one.  That's great, but given the time & space he had there, he'd better have scored.  He seems to want to play a Hossa-style game, often trying to simply force the puck past opposing defenders, but he hasn't the strength nor the guile to pull it off. Unfortunately, that goal will almost certainly earn him a start in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
This Seabrook + Oduya thing ain't working, 'cos one or the other always seems to be getting beaten to the outside.  It sure hasn't helped that Seabrook has been yippy with clearing attempts, either, often surrendering the puck with little or no effort to look for a play.

Ah well, onwards & upwards...